Two teenage girls suspected of being members of the brutal Boko Haram jihadist group carried out a suicide attack against an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in the terrorist group’s Nigeria-based birthplace, killing at least five people and wounding 39 others.

The number of suicide bombings carried out by women and girls across the world on behalf of terrorist groups reached an unprecedented level last year, reveals a new study by Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

In a major tactical shift in its terror operations, the radical Islamists of the Boko Haram jihadist group have multiplied the number of women and girls deployed as suicide bombers in an effort to elude detection by security officials.

A suicide bomb attack killed one person and injured 17 others at a market in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Sunday. According to one eyewitness, the bombers were young children: two girls only 7 or 8 years of age.

The Nigerian army issued a press release on Wednesday announcing that it had rescued 11,595 civilians held hostage by the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist organization Boko Haram and asserting once again that the group is close to total defeat.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement this week glorified two female suicide bombers even as Abbas himself went on Israeli TV telling viewers that he “extends his hand in peace.” Fatah posted the terrorists’ pictures on its official

The Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds chose International Women’s Day as the perfect occasion to hail the work of female terrorists. The paper said they should be lauded as examples of the full flowering of Palestinian womenhood.

An article at the Long War Journal notes that the recent headline news reports of female suicide bombers striking on behalf of Boko Haram, an affiliate of the Islamic State, are no coincidence. The use of women and girls as suicide bombers in the region is increasing.

Two female suicide bombers launched a deadly attack that killed an estimated 15 people at a packed mobile phone market in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday. Kano is the largest city in Northern Nigeria. The explosion ripped through Farm Centre market just after 4:00pm local time and comes only a day after a terrorist attack killed 32 and wounded 80 in the Northeast city of Yola.

Female suicide bombers are exploiting societal expectations in order to do greater damage to targets than their male counterparts could manage, academic research has revealed. As they are less likely to be suspected as terrorists, women are better able to